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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?
(a) Emails.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Bank statements.
(d) Facebook posts.

2. Who is screaming the Minister's name as he walks down the tarmac with his aides at the end of the story?
(a) His wife.
(b) The crowd.
(c) Ari.
(d) The Marlboro Man.

3. What does the man tell Ari he gave up long ago?
(a) Killing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Driving.
(d) Women.

4. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.
(b) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.
(c) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(d) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.

5. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He forgot his suitcase.
(b) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(c) He does not want to see his wife.
(d) He did not say goodbye to Ari.

6. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?
(a) Sings to the radio.
(b) Stares ahead in silence.
(c) Calls the cops.
(d) Cries.

7. Why was the Marlboro Man given that nickname?
(a) He used to steal Marlboros from convenient stores.
(b) He was from a town called Marlboro.
(c) He used to sell Marlboros from his trunk.
(d) His aunt used to send him Marlboro Reds from America.

8. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?
(a) Tales of elves and fairies.
(b) Tales of the Devil as a young man.
(c) Tales of the apocalypse.
(d) Tales of Jesus as a young man.

9. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?
(a) He thanks him for his help.
(b) He tells him he made a grave error.
(c) He introduces him to Ari.
(d) He tells him he looks familiar.

10. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(b) He ignores the man and says nothing.
(c) He waves to the man.
(d) He yells the same phrase back at the man.

11. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) It starts to rain.
(b) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.
(c) It starts to snow.
(d) The airport floods.

12. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To church.
(b) To the airport.
(c) To a cafe.
(d) To a hotel.

13. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) He tells him he is insane.
(b) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.
(c) He agrees with him.
(d) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.

14. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?
(a) They have much more money.
(b) Their hair is shorter.
(c) Their bellies are bigger.
(d) They are far more educated.

15. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?
(a) The Minister's house.
(b) The airport.
(c) The municipal building.
(d) The church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?

2. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister he is a student of?

3. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

4. What word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?

5. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister that the Prime Minister, whom he says took all the glory, really was?

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